The June/July issue of Esquire includes a list of Best Bars in America and The Pastry War is on it. (Photo: Esquire)

The Pastry War has been selected as one of Esquire magazine’s Best New Bars in America – the only bar in Texas to make the elite list compiled by cocktail historian and writer David Wondrich. The list appears in magazines June/July issue.

In his ninth annual list of the best bars in the country, Wondrich wrote this about the Pastry War: “This offshoot of the Anvil, Houston’s, and Texas’s, reigning two-bit saloon, is something different: not a cocktail bar so much as a cantina, strongly devoted to tequila and mescal. (The name refers to the French-Mexican war of 1838–39, triggered by a Mexico City mob trashing a Frenchman’s patisserie.) Sure, the cocktails are impeccable. And yet it’s got pool tables, tamales, and shots and beers. The best of both worlds.”

Esquire named 24 bars as the best in the country.

The Esquire nod is the latest accolade for the downtown bar owned by Bobby Heugel and Alba Huerta. In December the two were named the country’s best bartenders by Imbibe magazine.